Recent content by MrSnuggles

OK, I have made a solution...sort of. I have cut off a floppy connector from an old PSU. I plugged this into the gfx card power slot. Then I connected the yellow, and both black wires to the floppy connector in the new PCs PSU. Then I found a small switch and some lengths of wire, and...

OK, I have made some progress - I have got my PC to boot with the radeon gfx card. This is what I did. I unplugged the floppy connector from the card, and started the system. Before the PC beeped at me and before I got the connect power connector message on screen, I plugged in the power...

Yeah, I did. my PSU's main mobo connector can be split into a 20 and a 4 pin one. But I also have a second 4 pin connector coming out of the PSU, with 2 black and 2 yellw wires, and I've used this one to connect to the mobo. without it the PC will not POST - I've tried it...So I should use the...

Hmm...it sounds like the same problem I'm having....I'll have to post there and say 'Me Too!' Right now I'll have to leave this coz it's late, and my soundblaster 5.1 Live! soundcard isn't working properly either, sound is only coming out of one speaker....:( Thanks for the help so far tho! :)

OK, I changed to those settings as you said, and it didn't make any difference. The PC still refuses to even boot with the 12v power connector attached, and if I remove it, I then get the same message on the screen telling me to attach it!

OK ta, I'll have a look now...

Thermal paste, yup the CPU came with it on, attached the heatsink with no probs. oh, yeah, the RAM...2GB DDRII 5300...everything is running sweet as honey...I'm writing this post on the PC in question now, albeit with the diamond gfx card.

Yeah, i'm using an old 32MB Diamond Stealth III card...no 3D desktop on my Linux system for now :( The other odd thing...this mobo is supposed to support 8x AGP, but in the BIOS, it would only allow 4x. Would you recommend a BIOS update?

Yes Yes I Assume you mean page 7? This is a 1.5v card, not a 3.3v one, so it's OK....

Hi everyone! I'm having a problem, and I hope someone can help me please. I just built a new computer, and put my older graphics card into it, along with existing hard drive, DVD writer. The motherboard is an ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA, fitted with 2GB of DDRII RAM. The processor is a dual core...